Stove Tetris

Nice

 

Not my best work but she’ll burn.

sugar maple and a little ash.

 

I'm sitting here with the power out and burning mostly red alder with 1 or 2 bigleaf maple chunks in my little insert.

 

Looks good. Hope your power comes back on soon.

 

Looking at this one is awesome, Those are some stout looking blocks!

 

Whoa where did those come from!!!!??! Those would make great stacking blocks.
I’m stealing that idea for sure.

 

You wouldn’t happen to have possibly posted about those in a pick up would you? I pick up these various pieces of dunnage that heavy pipes and drainage supplies are shipped on. Some are oak, maple, cottonwood/ or poplar and fir of some kind. They’d make great cribbing ends.

 

Why is this so?

 

Can't pack the stove as full when loading side to side. And pics don't show much when it's loaded that way either.
I cut most of my wood to 13" for front to back loading in my insert. A lot of my wood for this year wasn't cut by me and is well over 13". It was cut by a tree service and a county road crew.

 

First load of mostly alder when I lit the stove tonight.

 

I found some short maple chunks this morning and set them aside to load N-S before bed.

 

22 here this morning. Cold for us west coasters!

 

Time to burn your best stuff. 2 year old maple in my case. This is all from trees I had cut down and this stuff pops like nothing else. It sounds like a .22 being fired outside with the sounds coming out of my chimney.

 

Had a little time before the big meal today, so I cleaned up a couple piles of shorties and chunks. Got our plastic pallet bin full now, plenty of stove Tetris ammo in a year or so. Oak, hickory and a little sourwood.

 

Nice

 

Didn't have enough short pieces to do a full N-S load. Pic 2 was 19 minutes later and dialed in at 600°.

 

Very nice indeed sir